Job Description

Job Title: Manager, Supply Planning                                                         Posting Date: January 13, 2022

Department:                                                                                                   Closing Date: January 22, 2022

Reports to: Director, Supply Chain Planning                                          Location: Toronto/Scarborough

Posting Number: 05-22-JLL-SAL

Company Overview

At Jamieson Wellness, we’re dedicated to improving the world’s health and wellness with our portfolio of innovative natural health brands. Established in 1922, Jamieson Vitamins is our heritage brand, available in over 40 countries and recognized as Canada’s #1 consumer health brand. We manufacture and market sports nutrition products and specialty supplements under our Progressive, Precision and Iron Vegan brands, and market products by Smart Solutions, the #1 women’s natural health focused brand in Canada. In 2017, Jamieson Wellness was named one of the top ten most reputable companies in Canada. For more information please visit jamiesonwellness.com.

Overall Responsibilities

The Manager, Supply Planning is responsible for developing and maintaining supply plans with their team to satisfy customer demand while carrying minimum effective inventory. The qualified individual will be responsible for providing supply plan(s) consistent with the capacity and sales forecast. The Manger, Supply Planning is responsible for determining and maintaining safety stock levels in accordance with overall business objectives related to customer service and carrying cost. The sales forecasts, new business opportunities, customer expectations, and internal supply constraints will be used to develop plans, by month, for a rolling 12-to-18-month period to support the S&OP process. Strong collaboration with the Business Managers, Operations, Sales, Customer Service, and Management will be critical to meeting business goals.

Specific Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Development and maintain plans that ensure balance between supply and demand and meets corporate inventory and customer service targets.
• Provide leadership, expertise, and best practices to Planners related to weekly operational cycles
• Maintain a balanced rough-cut Long-Range capacity plan as part of the S&OP process.
• Support the S&OP process to review service levels, performance against schedule, inventory strategy, supply plan to meet demand, and resource implications.
• Manage third party relationships for Purchased Finished Goods and co-packing/co-manufacturing.
• Development of supply scenarios and sensitivity analysis (risk) with recommendations to be used in the development of supply strategies.
• Conduct “what if” analysis required for strategy development.
• Through the finite scheduler, ensure a level loaded fixed 4-month production schedule in support of the plan, paying particular attention to inventory levels, plant efficiencies and customer service.
• Monitor actual output versus the plan. Identify gaps and drive solutions.
• Liaise regularly, as key supply contact, with many groups such as the Demand Planning, Quality, R&D, and New Product Development.
• Performs all work in accordance with established regulatory and compliance and safety requirements.
• Understand complex bill of materials and how they impact multiple operational functions
• Will comply with Good Manufacturing Practices in all GMP sensitive areas of Jamieson Laboratories Ltd. facilities
• Complete special projects and initiatives as assigned

Direct/Indirect Reports: Four (4)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Requirements

• University degree, APICS or other professional planning or logistics certification
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in a Senior Planning position, preferably in the consumer products industry
• Effective leadership skills
• Demonstrated experience with an MRPII system and MS Office applications
• Proven analytical and operational experience
• Familiar with GMP, and the various practices of the nutritional and pharmaceutical industry
• Ability to produce reports and schedules in a timely and accurate manner
• Strength in inter-personal, teamwork and communication skills
• Experience in both short-term and advanced planning processes
• Innovative, adaptable and motivated towards continuous improvement

Our Values

ACCOUNTABILITY

• We take personal ownership and pride in everything we do
• We demonstrate a bias for action
• We challenge the status quo constantly seeking to improve
• We eliminate barriers and bias to empower others to achieve our goals
• We are accountable to build and promote environments free of bias in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and all other types of discrimination

TEAMWORK

• We constructively challenge ourselves and others to achieve desired outcomes
• We demonstrate mutual respect, inspire trust and promote equality with colleagues and partners alike
• We collaborate toward common vision and objectives across all persons, levels, functions and locations as one company
• We recognize, celebrate and value each other’s differences, styles and contributions as one of our greatest strength
• We lead with a passion for winning together

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• We are empowered to pursue opportunities that will have great impact
• Our curiosity drives us to find better ways to accoumplish our goals
• We are agile, embrace change and persevere through adversity
• We demonstrate initiative and take calculated risks together

INTEGRITY

• We do what is right even when it’s not easy
• We demonstrate humility in everything we do
• We courageously stand up and support our diverse heritages, traditions, experiences, beliefs and styles
• We allow ourselves to be vulnerable, admit mistakes, learn from them and move forward

TRANSPARENCY

• We respectfully communicate honestly and directly in a timely manner
• We proactively seek diversity of ideas and provide real feedback in the interest of improvement and development
• We constructively share and respect each other’s opinions and ideas to enable sound decision-making at all levels
• We encourage differing point of views and productive debate to develop the best solutions

EXTERNAL FOCUS

• We focus our efforts with the community, consumer and customer in mind
• We continually seek opportunities through insights that affect our business, customers, consumers, government, environment, technology, competition and suppliers
• We foster positive collaboration with external partners that promote diverse and inclusive environments

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time.

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